Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate, almost disgraceful, that a University as rich as Harvard should so neglect such buildings as Holden, Harvard, and Massachusetts. It is high time that a committee of competent and interested men be formed for the preservation and restoration of these old buildings, priceless historically and architecturally, before they are completely denatured. It must not be said of Harvard that she encourages Mayan and Romanesque restorations, and so shamefully neglects the treasures in her own Yard! John P. Brown. President, The Georgian Society of America...
...inspect the terrain on which no citizen's life could be considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers...
Nowhere else is such an overwhelming majority of voters passionately resolved to stuff the ballot box as in the Saar. This smoke-smudged cockpit of coal and ore, priceless in wartime, is a prize worth cheating for. On Jan. 13, 1935 Saarlanders who are over 20 years old and were Saarlanders on June 28, 1919 will vote to decide whether the Saar shall remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders...
...desire that the priceless boon of sleep and rest be conferred as quickly as possible on as many as possible, and that the sick in particular shall be freed from the torment of the motor horn at night. . . . The caution which a motorist instinctively displays when he no longer has recourse to his hooter is a contribution to the measure we are taking to increase public safety...
...fumigation of its household as its own job, in which it can invoke the aid of the Treasury," declared Emissary Jackson, "the effort to place tax practice upon a higher plane will be successful. But if the Bar as a whole regards the right to be crooked as a priceless possession to be defended by hostility to all regulations and governance, the inevitable result will be that, as a whole, it will face a vexatious degree of regulation really needful for only a few rascals...